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 . . . CAREFREE see: "HAPPINESS" for related links Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. --Thomas Gray (17161771) English poet. "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", st. 6 [1747] Faith and my name is Kelly Michael Kelly, But I'm living the life of Reilly just the same. --Harry Pease (fl. 1919) Songwriter. "My Name is Kelly" [1919 song] ----- blithe (adj.) Happy, cheerful, and carefree idyll [EYE-dl], noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. 3. A lighthearted carefree episode or experience. 4. A romantic interlude. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. --Joanne Harris, _Chocolata_ insouciant (adjective) Having no cares or anxieties; light-hearted; carefree. Syn.: happy-go-lucky, lighthearted, carefree Related: giddy, nonchalant Derived: insouciance, n.; insouciantly, adv. raffish (adj.) ['rζ-fish] 1. Vulgar in taste, appearance, dissolute in behavior; rakish or 2. Dashing, carefree or unconventionally fun-loving; rakish.   CAREFUL . . see: "CAUTION" see: "PRUDENCE" see: "VIGILANCE" Make haste slowly. --Augustus [Gaius Octavius] (63 B.C.14 A.D.) The first Roman emperor. In _Lives of the Caesars_ [c.121] by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. --attributed to Yogi Berra (b. 1925) American baseball player and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. ^^ Carol Burnett (b. 1934) American actress Climbing out of a cab one day, Miss Burnett inadvertently caught her coat in the door. As the driver continued on his way, unaware of the accident, the comedienne was obliged to run alongside the moving vehicle to avoid being pulled off her feet. A quick-thinking passerby, noticing her plight, hailed the cab and alerted the driver. Having realeased Miss Burnett's coat, the driver asked her anxiously, "Are you all right?" "Yes," she replied, still gasping for breath, "but how much more do I owe you?" --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^^ Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun. The frumious Bandersnatch! --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. _Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. I [1872] He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to Maria Cosway [12 October 1786]. Chance generally favors the prudent. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 35 [1882]. You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps. --Cotton Mather (16631728) American Congregational minister and author. Advice to Benjamin Franklin upon approaching a low hanging beam in his parsonage. He is free from danger who, even when safe, is on his guard. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. Quoted in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.) _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 558 [4th ed., 1882]. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Romeo and Juliet_, II, iii [15951596] There's a snake hidden in the grass. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Eclogues_, no. 3, l. 93 ----- fastidious (adj.) 1. Exceedingly particular or demanding esp. in matters of detail; exacting. Syn.: picky, persnickety, exacting, finicky, meticulous [muh-TIK-yuh-luhs], adjective: Extremely or excessively careful about details. persnickety (adj.) 1. Fussy or demanding. Syn.: particular, fussy, fastidious Similar: squeamish, picky, hypercritical, exacting, finicky, 2. Requiring painstaking care of detail. Synonyms: particular Similar: nitpicking, meticulous, fussy, exacting, punctilious Derived: persnicketiness, n. punctilious (adj.) [pκngk-'ti-lee-κs] Strict about or attentive to details of proper conduct and conventional matters. Similar to "meticulous," but the two are not interchangeable. "Meticulous" means careful and precise about details. "Punctilious" adds the dimension of being careful and precise about the details of conventional conduct. solicitous [suh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective: 1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern. 2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive. 3. Extremely careful; meticulous. 4. Full of desire; eager. ;void(0)) CARELESS . . see: "NEGLECT" Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. --attributed to Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _The Great Gatsby_, ch. 9 [1925] The consul called the troops an army who had betrayed military discipline and deserted its standards. He then asked them individually where their weapons were, or their standards, as the case might be, and gave orders that every soldier who had lost his equipment, every standard-bearer who had lost his standard, every centurion, too, who had abandoned his post, should be first flogged and then beheaded. The remainder were decimated. --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. _The History of Rome_, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] Cohan & Major note that: This is the earliest recorded example of decimation, the selection by lot of every tenth man for execution. It is probably an instance of the creation of an early precedent for a later practice. It was rarely carried out but was revived at the end of the Republic and used from time to time by emperors. When asked: 'Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?' an English teacher replied: 'I don't know and I don't care.' --William Safire (19292009) Journalist, speechwriter, novelist, lexicographer, and winner of the 1978 Pulitzer for commentary. _On Language_, p. 151 [1980] We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. "Life's Scars", in _Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly_ [October 1898]. - We can imagine no reason why, with ordinary care, human toes could not be left out of chewing tobacco, and if toes are found in chewing tobacco, it seems to us that somebody has been very careless. --Supreme Court of Mississippi finding for the plaintiff in "Pillars vs. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co." [March 1918]. ----- cursory [KUR-suh-ree], adjective: Hastily or superficially performed. Ex.: "On most days, however, she confined her daily reading to a cursory scan of two or three newspapers." --James A. Drake, _Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography_ ;void(0)) CARING . . see: "KINDNESS" for related links It is a general error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. Observations on a publication entitled "The Present State of the Nation" [1769] Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. --Leo [Felice Leonardo] Buscaglia (19251998) American professor and author of inspirational books. _Born For Love: Reflections on Loving_ [1992] UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. --Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (19041991) American writer and illustrator of children's books. _The Lorax_ [1971] - So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe! --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. "Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady", l. 45 [1717] & note: Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _The Odyssey of Homer_ (poetic interpretation), bk. XVIII [1725] - There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living. --Don Marquis (18781937) American poet and journalist. _Prefaces_ [1919] "Preface To a Memorandum Book" I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't . . . My dear, I don't give a damn. --Margaret Mitchell (19001949) American novelist. _Gone with the Wind_ [1936] (Spoken by Rhett Butler in ch. 57.) - Not long ago, one of the nationally known picture magazines had a photograph of a man prostrate on subway stairs. For thirty minutes many people passed him by without ever a helping hand. The editorial comment was about the coldness of the modern man in the face of distress. What was forgotten was that the photographer of the picture magazine did nothing for thirty minutes for the afflicted individual except to snap pictures and make his own living. --Fulton John Sheen (18951979) Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television. _On Being Human_ [1982] - ----- altruistic [al-troo-IS-tik], adjective: Unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others. solicitous [suh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective: 1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern. 2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive. 3. Extremely careful; meticulous. 4. Full of desire; eager. . . see: "LIVE" see: "PROCRASTINATION" see: "TODAY" see: "LIFE" for other related links see: "TIME" for other related links But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _The Advancement of Learning_, bk. II [1605] Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. --attributed to Art Buchwald (19252007) American journalist and humorist who won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. _Teaching of Buddha (the Buddhist Bible)_ [1934] by Federation of All Young Buddhist Associations of Japan Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings itself the way through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life-march, as you will. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. Attributed in Bernard Vaughan _What of to-day?_ [1914]. When you're younger, you want to be sure that by the time you're eighty years old you can sit on the bench and look back and say, 'Man, I did it all. I didn't miss a thing.' --attributed to Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian. ^^ I always wait for _The Times_ each morning. I look at the obituary column, and if I'm not in it, I go to work. --A.E. Matthews (18691960) English actor. In Leslie Halliwell _The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes_ [1973]. ^^ Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. --attributed to James Dean (19311955) American film actor. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Imitation of Horace_, bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 [1685] Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (18901969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [19531961]. Quoted in Louis Filler _The President Speaks: From William McKinley to Lyndon B. Johnson_ [1964]. The greatest gift ... is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whether it offers little or much, life is nowthis daythis hour. --Charles Macomb Flandrau (18711938) American writer. _Viva Mexico_, ch. VII [1912] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [September 1741] One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship), bk. 5, ch. I [17951796] Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. --Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. _Strictly Personal_, p. 220 [1953] - ('Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.') Seize the day, put no trust in the future. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Odes_, bk. I, # 11, l. 7 Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Carmina_ I, 9, 13 - There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life big, broad, significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will. --Grenville Kleiser (18681953) American writer of humor and inspiration. _Inspiration And Ideals: Thoughts For Every Day_ [3rd. ed., 1918] Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of each day and hour. --Stephen Butler Leacock (18691944) Canadian humorist. Attributed in Lillian Eichler Watson (ed.) _Light From Many Lamps_ [1951]. Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 'twere but a hair's-breadth of time: as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, III, 10 - In youth, the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass, and even in middle age, with the ordinary expectation of life in these days, it is easy to find excuses for delaying what one would like to do but does not want to; but at last a time comes when death must be considered. Here and there one's contemporaries drop off. We know that all men are mortal but it remains for us little more than a logical premise till we are forced to recognize that in the ordinary course of things our end can no longer be remote. An occasional glance at the obituary column of _The Times_ has suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy; I have long thought that it would exasperate me to die before I had written this book, and so it seemed to me that I had better set about it at once. When I have finished it I can face the future with serenity, for I shall have rounded off my life's work. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Summing Up_, ch. 3 [1938] - I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. --J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (18941984) English novelist, playwright and critic. _Delight_, p. 170 [1949] Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_, # 633 Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. --Pierre de Ronsard (15241585) French poet. "Sonnets pour Hιlθne" 1, 43 Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. In _The Wisdom of Life; Counsels and Maxims_ [tr. by T. Bailey Saunders, 1890]. How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get Social Security, not girls. --Neil Simon (b. 1927) American playwright. _Come Blow Your Horn_ [1961] Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. --Sophocles (496?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Trachiniae_, l. 943 Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. --James Thurber (18941961) American humorist and cartoonist. "The Shrike and the Chipmunks" _New Yorker_ [18 February 1939] As I got older I became aware of the folly of this perpetual reaching after the future, and of drawing from tomorrow, and from tomorrow only, a reason for the joyfulness of today. I learned, when, alas! it was almost too late, to live in each moment as it passed over my head. --William Hale White [pseud. Mark Rutherford] (18311913) English novelist. _The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford_, ch. V [3rd ed., 1889] - "A Story To Live By" by Ann Wells in the "Los Angeles Times," late 1990s My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. "This," he said, "is not a slip. This is lingerie." He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was exquisite; silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached. "Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is the occasion." He took the slip from me and put it on the bed with the other clothes we were taking to the mortician. His hands lingered on the soft material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut and turned to me. "Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Every day you're alive is a special occasion." I remembered those words through the funeral and the days that followed when I helped him and my niece attend to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death. I thought about them on the plane returning to California from the Midwestern town where my sister's family lives. I thought about all the things that she hadn't seen or heard or done. I thought about the things that she had done without realizing that they were special. I'm still thinking about his words, and they've changed my life. I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting on the deck and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden. I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time in committee meetings. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experience to savor, not endure. I'm trying to recognize these moments now and cherish them. I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special event such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, the first camellia blossom. I wear my good blazer to the market if I feel like it. My theory is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $28.49 for one small bag of groceries without wincing. I'm not saving my good perfume for special parties; clerks in hardware stores and tellers in banks have noses that function as well as my party-going friends. "Someday" and "one of these days" are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now. I'm not sure what my sister would have done had she known that she wouldn't be here for the tomorrow we all take for granted. I think she would have called family members and a few close friends. She might have called a few former friends to apologize and mend fences for past squabbles. I like to think she would have gone out for a Chinese dinner, her favorite food. I'm guessing I'll never know. It's those little things left undone that would make me angry if I knew that my hours were limited. Angry because I put off seeing good friends whom I was going to get in touch with someday. Angry because I hadn't written certain letters that I intended to write one of these days. Angry and sorry that I didn't tell my husband and daughter often enough how much I truly love them. I'm trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. And every morning when I open my eyes, I tell myself that it is special. 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